Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
VAN KRIMPEN, JAN. Six Hymns of Homer. The English Translation by Percy Bysshe Shelley Facing the Original Greek.) Printed in red and black. 8vo, gilt-lettered red buckram. Antigone Greek and Lutetia Roman type designed by van Krimpen. Printed for The Halcyon Press at Johan Enschedé, Holland. number 341 of 450 copies on Pannekoek Dutch mould-made paper. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art, with his bookplate. Maastricht: The Halcyon Press, 1936

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with: Thomas a Kempis. De Navitate Domini. Printed in blue and black. Designed by van Krimpen. 32mo, silver boards. Printed Christmas Greeting from Enschedé Haarlem, 1936. With an autograph letter signed by van krimpen to wheeler 1 page, 8vo, 23 December 1936.